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Moynihan's "mini-Salzburg," recalling Henry Kissinger's own resignation threat in Austria last year when wiretapping accusations burst around him, left the Ford Administration with another wound. The President's inability to absorb one more high-level departure was exposed. Moynihan's own reputation was reduced; his threat to quit was seen as a temper tantrum with an aroma of vanity. Kissinger's authority was eroded too, since Moynihan went over his head to the President and won Ford's public backing...
Justice Department sources have told TIME that the King case was opened on "solid evidence" linking Communists with King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. According to these sources, two high-level Communist Party officials told the FBI in 1963 that the party had penetrated the SCLC. Hoover sent a memo about this to the White House and the departments of Defense, Justice and State. On the basis of the memo, Attorney General Robert Kennedy authorized wiretaps on King...
...quite seven years, the Republican Administrations begun by Richard Nixon and continued by Gerald Ford have had an astonishing record of high-level turnovers. The CIA has gone through three directors-Richard Helms, James Schlesinger and William Colby-and will soon have a fourth, George Bush. The FBI has had four chiefs: J. Edgar Hoover, L. Patrick Gray (acting), William Ruckelshaus (acting) and Clarence Kelley. The Office of Management and Budget (formerly the Budget Bureau) has had five directors: Robert Mayo, George Shultz, Caspar Weinberger, Roy Ash and James Lynn...
Gerald Ford's Sunday shake-up had its roots in the very beginning of his Administration and was a belated attempt to deal with several high-level personality and policy clashes...
...Saturday afternoon, both the White House and the Pentagon started getting press inquiries about rumors of high-level shifts: Newsweek began inquiring about the possibility that Kissinger was losing his NSC position. Quite truthfully, Press Secretary Ron Nessen turned back initial inquiries with the comment, "I haven't heard about that." Schlesinger relayed through spokesmen his belief that no plan was afoot to scuttle him, since he had just spent time with the President and the topic did not arise...